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social science subjects > psychology > psychological assessment > educational and child assessment > performance standards: selected response item formats

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performance standards: selected response item formats  

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  • Introduction Setting performance standards means implementing a process that identifies one or more points on a score scale to create categories of observed test scores. More fully, Cizek (1993: 100) has defined standard setting as ‘the proper following of a prescribed, rational system of rules or procedures resulting in the assignment of a number to differentiate between two or more states or degrees of performance’. This differentiation can result in dichotomous classifications such as Master/Non-master or Pass/Fail. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment; Performance Standards: Selected Response Item Formats]

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